hanger-on

Many of the president’s fat-cat hangers-on — including his new Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent — had convinced themselves that Trump wasn’t really the “tariff man” he describes himself as.

Giuliani's attorneys argued that the Trump hanger-on genuinely believed that Freeman and Moss committed election fraud, a point that held no water with Howell.

These weren’t groupies or hangers-on, they were friends.

Since he won the election Nov. 5, the habitat for hangers-on has been Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s waterfront Palm Beach playground in Florida, a state famously hospitable to swamps.

And for a person who is surrounded by hangers-on, he also seems very alone.